You paid for services rendered. By your logic you should eventually own your neighborhood grocery store because that’s where you buy your bread.

Well said. I switched to Mint on my laptop recently and just the serenity of not being pestered by the OS constantly fills me with contentment. Also, the fan was running constantly due to Windows background processes before and now it is silent unless I’m doing heavy work. Feels good.

Thanks for the explanation. Yeah, many domains being required probably is annoying / prohibitive enough to stop distributed botnet attacks.

I’m actually not sure how federated lemmy hasn’t already been destroyed. Wouldn’t it just take one bad actor to start spamming all the other instances with nonsence? If you deferate with the instance the bots are coming from they can just open another, right? Like a DDOS attack

That would mean gathering enough support to do it from people that got where they are because of it. It seems impossible.